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EBBA 30028

British Library - Roxburghe

Choice of Inuentions, Or / Seuerall sorts of the figure of three, / That are newly compos'd as here you may see, / Then lend your attention you shall heare anon / It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn.

Choice of Inuentions, Or / Seuerall sorts of the figure of three, / That are newly compos'd as here you may see, / Then lend your attention you shall heare anon / It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn.

The second part

Tune Imprint

It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn.

To the same tune.

First Lines

THere were three men of Gotam, / as I haue heard men say,

THere was a Lasse had three Louers / the one of them a Taylor,

Refrain

There was an Ewe had three Lambes, / and one of them was blacke, / There was a man had three sonnes, / Ieffrey, Iames and Iacke, / The one was hang'd, the other drown'd, / The third was lost and never found, / The old man he fell in a sownd, come fill vs

There was a Ewe had three Lambes, / and one of them was blacke, / There was a man had three sonnes, / Ieffrey, Iames and Iacke, / The one was hangd, the other drownd, / The third was lost and never found, / The old man he fell in a sownd, come fill vs a c